Contest Rules Question for Controllers

[Jupiter Jazz | 17]

As I’m gearing up to participate in some of the challenges I want to make sure I’m meeting the intent of the rules. The controller rules state:

Controllers

- Turbo Controllers are NOT allowed to be used. Neither are any controllers that give you any advantage over regular controllers, such as slow motion or turbo ability.
- If anyone is suspected of using turbo functions, slow motion abilities, etc from a controller, your score will be disqualified and you will be banned from further competition.

If I were to use a controller that has turbo or slowdown features, such as the NES Advantage or NES Max, but did not use those features, would that be permitted? They are turbo controllers, but it’s more the form factor that I would potentially use them for, not turbo or slowdown. Thoughts?

[RH | 4,908]

@BeaIank or @guillavoie. You know, I always assumed this was fine.  I've been supe busy and this new game season, I got an NES Advantage and if I can get back into participating, I was going to use the NES Advantage some, but I won't if even that's illegal.

[BeaIank | 1,627]

As long as the turbo and slow down features are not used, the NES Advantage is totally legal on the VGS NES Weekly Contest.
Of course, we operate on the honour system, as we have no real way to check if it was used or not. We will trust you all not to.

[Jupiter Jazz | 17]

5 minutes ago, BeaIank said:

As long as the turbo and slow down features are not used, the NES Advantage is totally legal on the VGS NES Weekly Contest.
Of course, we operate on the honour system, as we have no real way to check if it was used or not. We will trust you all not to.

I thought that would be the case, but wanted to be sure! Thank you for the clarification.